Fundamental agricultural research.

Discovering new ways
to grow and use plants.

Glassbiome investigates crop performance, useful compounds and resource-efficient production. We combine AI research with experiment design to connect biological mechanisms with industry needs.

AI research across crops, compounds and production systems.

Powered by Century AG v2

A research engine
that connects disciplines.

Our frontier AI research engine coordinates supervised agents that read original studies, compare mechanisms and challenge conclusions in parallel. Glassbiome uses that evidence to develop commercial hypotheses and select experiments that test their biological and production assumptions.

Our focus areas

From crops to useful products.

Start with industry needs.
Investigate how biology could address them.

Compounds for product function.

How can biological compounds meet formulation and production requirements?

We investigate how growing conditions and processing affect compound composition, stability and function, then define the tests needed for a finished formulation.

Personal care · beauty · ingredient development

Food quality and functionality.

How do biological and processing choices affect the quality and usability of food?

We investigate how cultivation and processing shape nutritional composition, ingredient performance and production economics, with experiments designed around the intended food application.

Nutrition · functional ingredients · food systems

Crop performance and resource use.

How do cultivation conditions change useful output and resource demand?

We investigate responses to light, water, nutrients and other growing conditions, connecting crop yield and composition with resource use and production requirements.

Agriculture · resource efficiency · production

Recovery from biological materials.

When can a byproduct become a useful input?

We examine recovery and processing routes for byproducts and underused biomass, considering usable output, quality, resource demands and competing uses.

Circular materials · biomanufacturing · recovery

The Century research engine

From scientific evidence
to experiments that matter.

Research workspace
  1. 01 / Discover

    Search across boundaries.

    Supervised AI agents examine crops, compounds, growing conditions and processes across original studies to identify connections worth testing.

  2. 02 / Examine

    Return to the evidence.

    Check study design, measurement and contradictory results. Separate what a paper demonstrates from what a model infers.

  3. 03 / Compare

    Compare the whole production route.

    Compare mechanisms, models and environmental schedules alongside usable output, resource demands and production constraints.

  4. 04 / Design

    Design the decisive test.

    Design greenhouse and laboratory studies that test a mechanism or production hypothesis, distinguish competing explanations and guide the next decision.

The engine supports supervised computational research and experiment design today. Source-supported findings, hypotheses and proposed experiments remain distinct; planned physical studies will test the proposed effects.

Inside the platform

Explore the research frontier.

A view of the industries and questions
that shape our research.

Scan Frontier

Illustrative overview · research themes

Preparing the overview…An illustration of our research interests. Findings, specific research combinations and supporting evidence are available through private partner access.

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Research & development

Greenhouse and
laboratory research.

We are preparing our first cultivation and laboratory studies to test mechanisms, crop responses and processing choices identified through our research.

Planned measurements cover growing conditions, plant composition, recovered output and performance in the intended product or process.

Leadership

The co-founders.

Co-founder & CEO

Misha Vasilevskii

Academic background
Cognitive ScienceUniversity of Toronto

Co-founder & CTO

Max Vasilevskii

Academic background
Agricultural ScienceUC Davis

Research & commercial partnerships

Advance the work
through partnership.

We welcome research and industry partners who can help test and develop applications in crops, ingredients and biological materials.

Detailed findings, scientific theses and supporting analyses are shared through the private partner workspace.